Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Battery stay at low level even after charging overnight?

There are some phones with higher current need, for example iPhone 3G and 3Gs, HTC Hero and Magic, Google Nexus One, HTC HD2, Samsung Omnia i8910, and Motorola Milestone.

Sometimes you are might just be able to charge to around 50% – 60% of full battery, chances are you are using a USB hub or a bad AC adpator.  If so, you might need to use the original AC adaptor.  The rational behind this is that it cannot charge fully if the input ampere is lower than the requirement of the phone.  This way the electricity cannot be flowed to the phone and thus the phone cannot be charged.

Next time when you buy an AC adaptor with USB out, remember to check the output of the phone – a 500mA adaptor is unlikely to fully charge a phone which requires 1A input(1A=1000mA).

Broken Push notification in iPhone 3.0 is due to jailbreaking

Some users have been receiving unrelated messages totally unrelated to them, and thought it was the problem on Apple’s side. Appleinsider says otherwise.

The explanation is that to Jailbreaking (“JB”) the iPhone, the unique private and public key of iPhone will change to that of the jailbreak. This opens a very dangerous loophole for hackers to distribute malicious contents. Receiving unrelated push will not be the most serious case . . .

Appleinsider did no specifically say if third-party unlocking will have this problem, but for safety’s sake, it’s better not to do than to do.

Get your iPod Touch upgraded to 3.0 without paying the $9.95

Feel like being discriminated for iPhone users can upgrade for free while you have to spend an extra $10? We have two Touches in our workshop, and we have heard about the following method, which seemed legitimate (as we manage to get the file in apple.com), and we decided to try it.

We have tried the following methods on two iPod Touch 2nd Generation machines and found them working. We cannot guarantee that this trick works in every single machine though. We have not heard any failed attempts thus far.

Here is how this was supposed to work:
(Make sure your iPod isnt modified in some strange way.)
1) Get the “iPod1,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw” (for iPod Touch first generation) or “iPod2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw” (for iPod Touch second generation) from the Internet. This file is basically available everywhere, including the Apple site.
2) Go to iTunes and click your device, and wait until it finishes synchonizing.
3) Hold down “Shift” key (on your keyboard) while clicking the “Recover” button.
4) Select the ipsw file you’ve just downloaded and saved.
5) The restore should work, all information in your iPod should vanish. Don’t panic,
6) as iTunes will prompt you to restore the backup you just sync’ed.

iPod Touch’s crappy keyboard.

Drastic price increase of Apple Store

With the launch of iPod Shuffle 3g(3rd Gen), a series of price revisions were taken place in Apple Stores all over the world.

Due to currency fluctuation, some products in Apple Store of various countries skyrocketed. Taiwanese users are already complaining about the price increase of iPod Nano. However, there are more extreme cases in South Korea, which our old post just covered a few days ago.

One week ago, iPod Touch 8G was 280,000 KRW (Korean Won) in South Korea. Now it is 36% more expensive: 379,000 won in official store.

Yes, this sounds a lot, but today’s 379,000 KRW is more or less the 280,000 KRW one year ago.